"Oh?"
General Han Fuyue peered at the blueprint Li Hongyun handed over, lit by the dim light inside the tent.
"Is this... a trebuchet?"
General Han Fuyue could vaguely make out the object on the blueprint, but his tone lacked considerable excitement.
Because, in this era, a trebuchet was nothing uncommon.
As early as during the Liang Dynasty, large trebuchets had appeared, requiring 150 to 250 people to pull the sling, launching stones weighing about 140 to 200 pounds with a range of 70 to 80 meters.
In the routine siege battles, trebuchets were relatively common siege weapons.
For instance, the Jin forces, during the Jingping rebellion to capture the capital of the Qi Dynasty, had craftsmen construct hundreds of large trebuchets around the capital before the formal siege, fiercely bombarding the city walls.
However, the effectiveness of such trebuchets in battle was not very impressive.